I’m angry about a guild issue, and venting on this blog seems appropriate. Normally I don’t publish guild stuff because it keeps the morale higher and most people don’t need to know. However this scenario is guild wide and I suspect something that other guilds face frequently too.
Basically who should pay for a Guild’s out-of-game services?
e.g. Ventrillo, or whatever voice chat, or the website, or hosting, or whatever.
For our guild the cost of these services has been paid for primarily by the guild officers, with a few donations from some players along the way. I took up the Vent costs a while back from another Officer who had been paying them for years. Another officer has paid for almost all our other web hosting services for many years. Recently I decided that paying for a service that I almost never used was pointless, so I asked for donations and/or other solutions.
I think there has been three donations since then. Not even close to enough to cover any one service, let alone Web and Vent.
A few players stepped up to discuss it, and a few made donations. I really appreciate the time, effort and donations of those people.
The other 12-15+ people in the guild who raid 3x nights a week and use Vent all the time have given nothing. They turn up, raid, and go.
The vent server will stop working any day now because I’ve stopped the account. We are discussing options, but without donations the costs just pass to another of the officers who is being too generous with his money. The silent majority of our raiders who use the service have not helped at all.
I’m angry that others have not donated.
I’m disappointed that other raiders don’t care enough to help.
It would take about a cup of coffee a month from each raider to pay for all our services easily. In fact we’d probably have huge amounts of cash left over. It could be one coffee every three months from each of them and we’d still be fine.
e.g. 20 raiders x $3.50 per quarter = $280. Even if I exclude the few folk who have already donated or already paid up regularly we could still have just less than $200 to pay for this stuff.
So I have to ask – who should pay? I guess I expect raiders to contribute, but most do not.
Is that view unreasonable?
It is reasonable to be in a guild and never contribute to any of the out-of-game costs?
Should the officers or GM alone pay for all the extra services?
My advice to others is to think about what you are using, who is paying, and what you get out of it.I’m done paying for others to raid on my dime.
Kill everything and loot the corpses, TyphoonAndrew.
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